That is not what Paul is conveying in 2Th2.
But one must biblically define what "[that] THE DAY OF THE LORD [is present / is already here]" MEANS, or one will not come to the correct conclusion of what Paul is actually conveying in this passage... just as you are incorrectly concluding.
1Thessalonians 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
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For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
WHY ARE WE BEING TOLD WHAT IS BEING SAID WHEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION IS ABOUT TO COME UPON THEM? BECAUSE WE WILL BE HERE. NONE OF THIS INFORMATION WOULD BE GIVEN TO ANYONE WHO WOULD NOT BE HERE EXPERIENCING THIS STUFF.
IT MAKES NO SENSE TO TELL THOSE WHO WONT BE HERE WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR.
YOU ARE MAKING GOD TO BE THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION. WHICH person would ever come to faith KNOWING WHAT IS WRITTEN ISN'T EVER WHAT IS MEANT? HOW ARE THEY EVER TO COME TO KNOWLEDGE IF IT MAKES NO SENSE?
AND WHO DOES THE DESTRUCTION COME UPON? THEM. WHY THEM? BECAUSE IT DOESN'T COME UPON US. WHY DOESN'T IT COME UPON US? BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT DWELLS WITHIN US. SEE HOW WE ARE NOT APPOINTED TO WRATH? SEE HOW THE BLOOD OF JESUS KEEPS US SAFE FROM THE WRATH OF GOD. AGAIN NO NEED TO GO TO HEAVEN AND SIT IT OUT.
DO NOT FEAR, GOD IS HERE. GOD EVEN HAD TO GIVE HIM A CROWN. IT ISN'T LIKE HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
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Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
ANOTHER WARNING FOR NO REASON?
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober
, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
WHY ARE WE TOLD TO PUT ON ARMOR IF NOT GOING INTO BATTLE? WHY NOT A DRESS?
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU DIE OR NOT AND PERSECUTION IS GOOD FOR US TO BE REFINED. GOD ISN'T GOING TO TAKE ANYONE AWAY FROM WHAT HE HAS HIMSELF SET UP TO MAKE US LESS COMBUSTIBLE.
SO HERE IS
THE DAY OF THE LORD
BEING SPOKEN OF IN THIS LETTER 1
WHAT DOES LETTER ONE SAY THE DAY OF THE LORD IS?
WHEN CHRIST RETURNS AND THE DEAD ARE RAISED AND THE ALIVE AND REMAINING ARE CAUGHT UP.
AGREED?
WHAT ELSE ARE WE TOLD ABOUT THIS DAY OF THE LORD?
1Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
WHAT DOES THE 2ND LETTER SAY ABOUT THIS DAY OF THE LORD?
2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
WHAT DID THE FIRST LETTER SAY THIS DAY WAS?
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means:
for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed,
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the Brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
